“June has already been a bad month for getting hacked. Professional networking site LinkedIn, dating site eHarmony and streaming radio site Last.fm all reported the theft of users’ passwords, altogether involving 8 million accounts. If it hasn’t happened to you already, your chances of having a password stolen in the future are high, but...
Read more →Link: How to Secure Your Digital Life During Your Next Coffee Break “Fix your passwords, safeguard against email break-ins, and theft-proof your devices before that cup of joe gets cold.” by Kevin Purdy on @FastCompany
Read more →Link: Ten passcodes you should never, ever use on your iPhone “Are you one of the many people who is using a dangerously easy-to-guess passcode on your smartphone? Maybe you should do something about it – sooner rather than later. The warning comes after new research suggested that many iPhone owners use one of...
Read more →Link: Twitter Security Flaw Today with OnMouseOver A security bug or flaw was discovered today on Twitter.com, and quickly became widely exploited. It let an exploiter craft a tweet in a certain manner, and when any other user moved their mouse over the tweet (without clicking), that unsuspecting user had the pre-programmed action...
Read more →Link: Over 1.3 Million Websites Host Malware – Don’t Be One of Them “Dasient saw a spike in the number of websites hosting malware in Q2 of this year, according to the security-as-a-service company’s Q2 Malware Report. According to Dasient, over 1.3 million web sites host malware – more than twice as many as...
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